Re: Windows support

From: Marius Storm-Olsen <marius@trolltech.com>
Date: Jul 26, 2007, 16:58 UTC
Message-ID: <46A8D2BE.7070309@trolltech.com>
In-Reply-To: <fcaeb9bf0707260807u476719e3rec2dcf5f780013c0@mail.gmail.com>

Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:

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> On 7/26/07, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
>> Thank you for working on this!
>>
>> However, I am not completely convinced that having a builtin shell is all
>> that useful.  I for one would like to have MinGW busybox _separate_ from
>> git...
> 
> I make MinGW busybox part of git for some reasons:
> 
> - Making a full MinGW busybox would take lots of time. I don't need
> busybox for Windows. What I need is a shell and enough POSIX utilities
> to run git shell scripts without any dependencies. Windows users
> (including myself when I have to use Windows) hate dependencies.
> - I don't want MinGW busybox to be used outside of git (if it is
> installed separated from git), there are cygwin and msys already. I
> don't want to compete them. And I don't like conflicts (not sure
> though) because you have multiple UNIX emulations on the same system.

(..snip..)

Hi Duy,

*drool* This was an extremely good idea! Thank you so much for working on it! I'll be sure to play around with it, and see if there's any way I can help out. Guess I finally have to get that MinGW compile environment set up then :-)

Btw, are you compiling with MinGW on Windows, or cross-compiling on Linux?

Neat neat neat!

-- .marius